Bertuzzi opened the scoring, with the Red Wings' first power-play goal of the season, 7:13 into the game. He put a wraparound effort past Ray Emery for Bertuzzi's first goal, just 24 seconds after Michael Raffl went off for hooking.

"That was huge. We got one, Bert just got it done on his own, I think it loosened the guys up and after that we were able to move the puck and get pucks back," Detroit coach Mike Babcock said. "So that was a real positive thing for us. You need your scorers to score to win games. But they got to get their confidence and in order to do that you got to score a little bit so this should be a good thing for us."

Babcock moved Bertuzzi up to the first line for the game along with Datsyuk and Zetterberg.

"I thought we entered the zone pretty good, we moved the puck around quite a bit and most important thing, we shot the puck," Bertuzzi said. "We got the puck to the net and we had traffic around there and we had some good plays, that was the key, moving it and getting as many shots as we can."